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Target cuts outlook as it sees fewer customers in stores
usnews.com ^ | August 17, 2016 | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO,

Posted on 08/17/2016 1:38:05 PM PDT by Morgana

NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. cut its profit forecast and a key sales outlook Wednesday as it saw fewer customers in its stores and acknowledged it didn't push the second part of its "Expect More, Pay Less" slogan.

The Minneapolis-based discounter's second-quarter net income fell nearly 10 percent, though that was better than what most had expected. Sales at stores open at least a year fell 1.1 percent, reversing seven straight quarters of gains. Its main competitor, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., reports results Thursday.

Target's shares fell $4.74, or 6 percent, to $70.74 in afternoon trading.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: boycott; homosexualagenda; layoffs; retail; target; transexual; unisex
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To: Morgana

So Target is spending 20 million dollars on an issue that didn’t affect them? Okay.


21 posted on 08/17/2016 2:05:32 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Will88

Well this was announced today to... So even though TGT won’t admit the boycott had any Bearing on its fall in earnings, it’s pretty obvious that it has...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/08/17/target-hit-some-turbulence-this-summer/

Now it will be funny to watch as these same mentally ill folks they decided to pander to start using these single stalls for hook ups...

Some folks never learn


22 posted on 08/17/2016 2:07:08 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

Same. I had a gift card left over, which I used to purchase a gift card to another vendor (restaurant IIRC). I know they make next to nothing on these - and haven’t been there since. Brother did the same thing.


23 posted on 08/17/2016 2:07:12 PM PDT by mykroar (Democrats in 2016: The party of genitalia, real or imagined.)
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To: Morgana

GayC Pansy is a dead man walking. It was almost sad the last time I walked through one (on the way to the main mall) - virtually a ghost town.


24 posted on 08/17/2016 2:10:23 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: Morgana

I’ve always disliked targey but now I have two grand daughters and I will never take them to a targey!


25 posted on 08/17/2016 2:12:01 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Trump, or no more republicans)
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To: faithhopecharity
not a chance we’d ever go back to Target until at least they stop encouraging or letting dirty of men into the little girls’ rooms

Not good enough for me, because the same people who made that decision are still in their seats, waiting to insult us again.

Target would have to fire their current CEO and do some drastic policy change across the board before I'd ever think of darkening their doors again. (Basically, they'd have to become another Hobby Lobby.)

26 posted on 08/17/2016 2:12:41 PM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: Morgana

Sales are down at the Target Peep Show


27 posted on 08/17/2016 2:13:10 PM PDT by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: Morgana

I wanna get a tee shirt that says;
“Target! I’m just here to use the Ladies Room!”


28 posted on 08/17/2016 2:15:28 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Morgana

29 posted on 08/17/2016 2:19:42 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Gamecock

Doing that this w/e. But we go to BBnB for most stuff.


30 posted on 08/17/2016 2:24:00 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Gamecock

“This past weekend I moved my daughter back to college. “


Wow,early.

My grandkids aren’t going until this weekend and next weekend.

.


31 posted on 08/17/2016 2:26:36 PM PDT by Mears
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To: fwdude

What is sad about that is JC Penny did have good quality merchandise. May not have been top of the line but mother’s got their money’s worth and things lasted a good long time. Even now I find stuff at thrift stores made from Penny’s years ago and even though they made be dated they still have life left in them. Does not matter if it was clothing, housewares, or linens. By far JC Penny was a much better store than Target. Why they did something that stupid I’ll never understand. Shows they did not know who their target (no pun intended) market was.


32 posted on 08/17/2016 2:27:41 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Smooth move, pandering to < 2% of the population. Probably figured they would be embraced by liberal love. I stopped shopping at Target years ago.


33 posted on 08/17/2016 2:28:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("You can't fake good kids.")
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To: b4its2late

Boycotts can work. Beat Target into surrender!


34 posted on 08/17/2016 2:28:35 PM PDT by BobNative
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“I wanna get a tee shirt that says;
“Target! I’m just here to use the Ladies Room!””

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Just to be mean, Wal-Mart should sell them.


35 posted on 08/17/2016 2:30:31 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

What’s Target whining about? I’m sure all the freaks and queers shopping at Target will make up the difference in lost revenue from normal people shopping elsewhere...right?


36 posted on 08/17/2016 2:32:39 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: Yogafist

Ungrateful transvestites.

BEST ANSWER


37 posted on 08/17/2016 2:36:35 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Morgana

Toilets, Target. There’s the problem, and when folks complained, you doubled-down. Better to be right and out of business?? Cutting off nose/ spite face.


38 posted on 08/17/2016 2:40:19 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Morgana
Guess the Hemales don't do enough shopping to keep the store in the black.
39 posted on 08/17/2016 2:42:44 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: Morgana

Oh no.


40 posted on 08/17/2016 2:45:13 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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